Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an application last year to extend surveillance of former Trump campaign associate Carter Page, a secret Republican memo claims, according to law enforcement sources and news reports.

Rosenstein has been fighting the release of the memo from inside the Justice Department, sources confirm.

According to three people familiar with the memo, the FBI and Justice Departments (DOJ) application was based partially on research by investigator Christopher Steele, who contributed to a dossier containing unverified claims about President Trumps ties to Russia.

If Rosenstein was in on the Clinton conspiracy and knew the dossier was bogus, but hid that information so he could appoint Robert Mueller, and has served as Mueller's "oversight" to the Russian investigation that means...that the person responsible for appointing Mueller was part of a criminal conspiracy against the target of the investigation.

In March 2015, the Washington Post reported that the sensitive leak investigation, led by Rod J. Rosenstein, had stalled amid concerns that a prosecution in federal court could force the government to confirm information about the highly classified program.

According to some sources, Cartwright and Strozk are related but a poster here says they are not.

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